It is sad that Enterprise was not kept as a museum ship as many other ships were. There are a number of Essex-class ships kept as museum ships, such as Yorktown, Intrepid and Lexington. However, all of them were extensively modified after the war by the addition of angled armored flight decks. It would have been nice to keep one carrier in the original World War 2 configuration.
A question for you. If we had kept the Enterprise as a museum ship would we have been able to name another active ship the Enterprise?